On this Day in History, April 9, 1959: NASA introduced America’s first astronauts who became known as the Original Seven (pictured) and were chosen for the country’s first space program "Project Mercury"

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Faked Moon Landing? New Technique Analyzes Shadows To Spot Photo Fakes Take for example the iconic 1969 photo of NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin posing on the surface of the moon. “The shadows go in all kinds of different directions and the lighting’s very strange…but if you do the analysis [with our software], it all checks out,” O’Brien said.